Monday 30th August - This Is Child Abuse THE DAILY MAIL: A mother claims that her 8-eight-year old son is ‘transgender’. Jess Bratton told the Daily Mail that her 8-year-old son, Logan, ‘never ever liked boys' stuff’ such as ‘getting muddy and playing football’. Jess tried to persuade him into more traditionally masculine pursuits, to get him
It's bad enough that the police are advertising political messages at all, but on their riot shields? Their RIOT SHIELDS?
Doesn't anyone remember what they *did* with those things during the miners strike and countless conflicts since? These are not fun accessories, they are at best necessary tools for protection against violence and - all too often - weapons for committing it.
And *that's* where they choose to paint their - already deeply worrying - political slogans?
Oh, the ubiquitous trope Munchie Mums parrot about kids tryna cut off their willies. WTF was a three year old doing near scissors? Did he partly sever it and need hospital treatment? Stitches? Why wasn't he immediately sent for psychiatric evaluation? Why weren't Social Services involved? Makes me sick and livid 🤬
I am certain that the reason we've not been allowed to see any breakdown of the public response to the Scottish consultation is that the public overwhelmingly rejects the idea. As for the Dublin thing... exerting promises from children to lie to people about their material reality so that they will be more comfortable having irreversible body modification surgeries and sterilizing themselves is really negligence verging on evil.
The problem with reporting it in this way is that it normalises it even further and other people will latch on to it. Genuinely terrified by what is happening to children right now.
RE Logan. I read that article and thought the mother was odd. She says it's normal for kids to experiment with gender and dressing up, yet admits to shaming him over the toys he prefers and forcing him to play with "boys toys", thus giving him an "Something's wrong" complex. And somehow she thinks being a girl means suddenly wearing skimpy clothes, false eyelashes, and fur coats like a tiny prostitute. Sorry, that's how I think he looks. Almost sexualised, like a teenager.
Why has she told him that's how girls must act? He's got it from somewhere.
That's right Paisley, bodies are just bodies, and ribbons are just bloody ribbons too!
Glad to find Hilary Mantel is speaking out.
She's of course aware of idiots going nuts over nothing, eg her measured comments on Kate Middleton (which provoked hysterical reactions) and her story 'The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher' published AFTER Thatcher died but which triggered moronic shocked comments by the likes of David Cameron, who had not read the story, and threats of calling the police. 'Bring it on' I think she replied. I'd have therefore been so disappointed if I'd found out she was afraid to speak out. What a great woman and writer.
Good God the state of Laurie Penny. "You should feel bad!" Quickly followed by "how should I know how a teen girl should feel when sexually assaulted?" She calls herself a feminist and apologises for sex abuse of children in the same damn tweet. So much for that Oxford education. Blatant hypocrisy without even a hint of irony. What a shit show!
GAH! Honestly I could not get past the TODDLER having SCISSORS ✂️. Hello? What kind of mother leaves scissors lying around a toddler?? 🚩🚩🚩🚩 Will read the rest when I calm down. Seriously… Toddler. Scissors. FFS!!
That poor little boy! A woman who ran a small business I used to shop at has three boys and one of them (either the middle or youngest son, I can't recall which) was extremely feminine, unlike his brothers. I remember her posting about how she found out he was a "trans girl" - I still accepted the gender extremists' articles of faith but even then, felt uneasy about the idea that a little boy who prefers watching Frozen to watching the footy and pink teddy bears to blue one is "really a girl". I thought, "hang on, couldn't he just be a little boy who likes Frozen and pink soft toys? She knows her kid better than I, I suppose". She told a similar story: more masculine brothers teasing him about being "like a girl", he defiantly says, "I AM a girl" and she found him trying to cut his penis off with scissors at the age of four. This woman and her husband knew nothing about transgenderism so helpful staff at his kinder then "educated" them and talked them into socially transing this kid. The parents believed they were doing the best thing for their son. This would have been about five years before I met this woman - I met the kid once and he was well and truly presenting as stereotypically feminine, using a female name and being referred to as "she/her". Although by then I was questioning how "progressive" and logical this whole "born in the wrong body" narrative was, I went along with it to be polite.
It is horrible. In the case of the woman I knew, these were fairly unsophisticated parents, didn't follow the news, weren't homophobic - they just accepted the advice of people they thought knew better.
More recently, I found out that my brother and his wife had a similar experience. Their oldest son was obsessed with numbers and maths and a bit reserved with strangers. When he was about 6, some well-meaning counsellors at his school who'd been to some conference or other decided he was on the autism spectrum. My sister-in-law agreed to an assessment during which this fairly stereotypically masculine little boy was asked to play a game called "Dolly's Tea Party". He wasn't interested. This, rather than evidence that my nephew is not interested in pretending a doll is having a party, was seized on as evidence of Autism. Fortunately my dad and stepmother - who know what Autism is because my cousin is Autistic, and who also had been socially awkward child who didn't do normal little girl things all the time, ie me - convinced my brother and sister-in-law not to go along with imposing a diagnosis on such a flimsy basis and simply let Alex (not his real name) be Alex. Five years later, Alex's social anxiety has eased and he's thriving at school without the need for any additional services.
I told Dad that if Alex had jumped at the chance to role play "Dolly's Tea Party" one of those workers would probably have tried to trans him.
It's bad enough that the police are advertising political messages at all, but on their riot shields? Their RIOT SHIELDS?
Doesn't anyone remember what they *did* with those things during the miners strike and countless conflicts since? These are not fun accessories, they are at best necessary tools for protection against violence and - all too often - weapons for committing it.
And *that's* where they choose to paint their - already deeply worrying - political slogans?
Oh, the ubiquitous trope Munchie Mums parrot about kids tryna cut off their willies. WTF was a three year old doing near scissors? Did he partly sever it and need hospital treatment? Stitches? Why wasn't he immediately sent for psychiatric evaluation? Why weren't Social Services involved? Makes me sick and livid 🤬
I am certain that the reason we've not been allowed to see any breakdown of the public response to the Scottish consultation is that the public overwhelmingly rejects the idea. As for the Dublin thing... exerting promises from children to lie to people about their material reality so that they will be more comfortable having irreversible body modification surgeries and sterilizing themselves is really negligence verging on evil.
The problem with reporting it in this way is that it normalises it even further and other people will latch on to it. Genuinely terrified by what is happening to children right now.
Ah is going to be gas craic in Dublin schools...sir sir i would like me pronouns to be your Majesty
RE Logan. I read that article and thought the mother was odd. She says it's normal for kids to experiment with gender and dressing up, yet admits to shaming him over the toys he prefers and forcing him to play with "boys toys", thus giving him an "Something's wrong" complex. And somehow she thinks being a girl means suddenly wearing skimpy clothes, false eyelashes, and fur coats like a tiny prostitute. Sorry, that's how I think he looks. Almost sexualised, like a teenager.
Why has she told him that's how girls must act? He's got it from somewhere.
Why or were men and women separated into their own spaces and why is that not deemed important now?
An 8 year old trans kid is like a vegan cat - we all know who didn't make that decision.
Also, David Paisley needs to have his hard drive checked. Just saying.
The photo on the left immediately made me flash back to pics of prostituted children on sex tourism sites. This is someone’s sick fantasy.
That's right Paisley, bodies are just bodies, and ribbons are just bloody ribbons too!
Glad to find Hilary Mantel is speaking out.
She's of course aware of idiots going nuts over nothing, eg her measured comments on Kate Middleton (which provoked hysterical reactions) and her story 'The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher' published AFTER Thatcher died but which triggered moronic shocked comments by the likes of David Cameron, who had not read the story, and threats of calling the police. 'Bring it on' I think she replied. I'd have therefore been so disappointed if I'd found out she was afraid to speak out. What a great woman and writer.
Do eight year old girls dress up like this of their own accord?
Good God the state of Laurie Penny. "You should feel bad!" Quickly followed by "how should I know how a teen girl should feel when sexually assaulted?" She calls herself a feminist and apologises for sex abuse of children in the same damn tweet. So much for that Oxford education. Blatant hypocrisy without even a hint of irony. What a shit show!
GAH! Honestly I could not get past the TODDLER having SCISSORS ✂️. Hello? What kind of mother leaves scissors lying around a toddler?? 🚩🚩🚩🚩 Will read the rest when I calm down. Seriously… Toddler. Scissors. FFS!!
That poor little boy! A woman who ran a small business I used to shop at has three boys and one of them (either the middle or youngest son, I can't recall which) was extremely feminine, unlike his brothers. I remember her posting about how she found out he was a "trans girl" - I still accepted the gender extremists' articles of faith but even then, felt uneasy about the idea that a little boy who prefers watching Frozen to watching the footy and pink teddy bears to blue one is "really a girl". I thought, "hang on, couldn't he just be a little boy who likes Frozen and pink soft toys? She knows her kid better than I, I suppose". She told a similar story: more masculine brothers teasing him about being "like a girl", he defiantly says, "I AM a girl" and she found him trying to cut his penis off with scissors at the age of four. This woman and her husband knew nothing about transgenderism so helpful staff at his kinder then "educated" them and talked them into socially transing this kid. The parents believed they were doing the best thing for their son. This would have been about five years before I met this woman - I met the kid once and he was well and truly presenting as stereotypically feminine, using a female name and being referred to as "she/her". Although by then I was questioning how "progressive" and logical this whole "born in the wrong body" narrative was, I went along with it to be polite.
It is horrible. In the case of the woman I knew, these were fairly unsophisticated parents, didn't follow the news, weren't homophobic - they just accepted the advice of people they thought knew better.
More recently, I found out that my brother and his wife had a similar experience. Their oldest son was obsessed with numbers and maths and a bit reserved with strangers. When he was about 6, some well-meaning counsellors at his school who'd been to some conference or other decided he was on the autism spectrum. My sister-in-law agreed to an assessment during which this fairly stereotypically masculine little boy was asked to play a game called "Dolly's Tea Party". He wasn't interested. This, rather than evidence that my nephew is not interested in pretending a doll is having a party, was seized on as evidence of Autism. Fortunately my dad and stepmother - who know what Autism is because my cousin is Autistic, and who also had been socially awkward child who didn't do normal little girl things all the time, ie me - convinced my brother and sister-in-law not to go along with imposing a diagnosis on such a flimsy basis and simply let Alex (not his real name) be Alex. Five years later, Alex's social anxiety has eased and he's thriving at school without the need for any additional services.
I told Dad that if Alex had jumped at the chance to role play "Dolly's Tea Party" one of those workers would probably have tried to trans him.